Improvement in snap-hooks



WITNESSES J. B. HAMPTON. Snap-Hooks.

Patented Dec. 9, I879.

INVENTOR N. PETERS, PNOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. n C

'.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. HAMPTON, or POMEROY, OHIO.

IMPROVEM ENT IN SNAP-HOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,491 dated December 9, 1879 application filed July 2, 1879. i

in the direction of the length of the frame,- and a central cross-bar, with a stud projecting from the upper side.

This frame forms a part of the buckle, hook, 850., and the strap is passed through the slot at the free end of the frame, then over the cross-bar, so that the stud will pass through a hole in the strap;

thence it extends through the slot in the opposite end of the frame.

By simply raising the strap from the stud the buckle or hook can be changed up and down on the strapto another hole, and then secured as before.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is I a longitudinal section of my improvement on line :20 a: of Fig. 2, andFig. '2 is a top plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A is the oblong frame, projecting from the shank of the snaphook B. In the end pieces of this frame are transverse slots at a in the direction of the length of the frame, and in the middle is a transverse bar, b, on the upper side whereof is a stud, c.

O is the strap to which the hook is attached, and it is applied in the following manner: The strap is passed through one of the end slots, a, thence over the bar I), so that one of the holes in it will receive the stud c thence it is carried through the slot at opposite the end it entered. In this way the hook is securely connected with the strap, and it can be adjusted up and down by simply raising the strap, so as to release it from the stud, then moving the hook or buckle, as the case may be, and entering the stud in another position,

and securing in the same way as before.

I am aware that a hook has been made with a straight shank having two keepers with intermediate pin, all in a line; but

JOHN BRUNER HAMPTON.

Witnesses S. DAVIS, O. F. BRANCH. 

